Carla España, Ph.D. is a New York-based educator from Chile, researcher, and writer. Dr. España’s teaching, writing, and research live at the intersection of bilingual education, children’s literature, language ideologies, curriculum development, Latinx studies, and teacher education. Dr. España is Assistant Professor of Bilingual Education and Puerto Rican/Latinx and Latin American Studies at Brooklyn College, City University of New York. She is the co-author of En Comunidad: Lessons for Centering the Voices and Experiences of Bilingual Latinx Students and Translanguaging Collection: Affirming Bilingual and Multilingual Readers.